now how do we talk Milwaukee into Spencer Jones?

You've got 6 months to churn out 4 playoff SP among

Cole
Fried
Peralta
Rodon
Schlittler
Warren
Schmidt
Gil
ERC

Any healthy useful arms outside the top 4 should maximize their stuff out of the pen in October

You can dream on pitching staffs but it almost never works out that way. I'm less concerned about April May and most concerned about maximizing the number of options to start a playoff game. FA bargain bin won't help in this regard.

They don't have a "true" leadoff hitter but maximizing ABs for Bellinger or Rice in favorable matchups for each is the modern ideal. The lineup flexibility Contreras C/1B and Bohm 1B/3B bring makes them extremely dangerous late in games and reduces some of their Wells/McMahon left on left K exposure

At these salaries this puts them at $330 mil before tax. It costs them $$ but maybe they can get some cash from the cards and costs them Jones and enticing arms that the farm system has proven capable of replenishing.

April-May
LHP Fried
RHP Peralta
RHP Schlittler
RHP Warren
RHP Gil

Sept-Oct hope
RHP Cole
RHP Peralta
LHP Fried
LHP Rodon
RHP Schlittler

CL Bednar
SU Doval
SU Cruz
RHP Gil
LHP Hill
RHP Warren
LHP Yabrough

vs LHP
LF/CF Bellinger (L)
RF Judge
DH Stanton
2B Chisholm (L)
C Contreras
1B Rice (L)
3B Bohm
LF/CF Dominguez/Grisham (S/L)
SS Caballero

vs RHP
1B Rice (L)
RF Judge
LF Bellinger (L)
2B Chisholm (L)
DH Stanton
CF Grisham (L)
C Wells (L) -> Contreras PH
3B McMahon (L) -> Bohm PH
SS Caballero/Volpe

replying to a bot to say WORST FOR WHO? surely not Anthony Rendon or MLBPA but maybe for Arte Moreno, personally

extending the QO is either a huge miscalculation by the org or it tells you how they feel about Jasson/Jones. even if they cash them both in as trade chips, desirable options are extremely limited by the payroll they're gonna carry w Grisham, let alone Bellinger, coming back.

Cease Gallen and Woodruff all get QO. On second thought, you're the Yankees who cares about draft pick comp go out and get a RHP that can start a playoff game.

which pretty famously are not his buildings

if Polymarket and Kalshi are nothing more than the same parimutuel betting found at the horse track how are they considered "prediction" markets and read by the masses as any indicator of a likely outcome?